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20 blockchain investment and financing events in a week, totaling over $260 million, with attention on DeFi and infrastructure.
Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 20 events this week, with a total scale of over 260 million USD.
Last week (June 9 - June 15), there were a total of 20 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain sector, with a total funding scale exceeding 260 million USD. About 60 million USD was for the financing of cryptocurrency asset reserves by listed companies. The main investment areas include DeFi, Web3 gaming, AI + Web3, infrastructure and tools, and consumption.
DeFi领域
The British fintech company OpenTrade has completed a $7 million strategic round of financing, led by Notion Capital and Mercury Fund. OpenTrade focuses on providing stablecoin yield services for high-inflation areas, with platform-managed assets reaching $47 million and a monthly trading volume of $200 million.
Silhouette completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by RockawayX. Silhouette is building the "Shield Exchange" based on TEE technology, dedicated to achieving privacy-protected order matching and settlement functions on Hyperliquid.
The institutional staking platform Colossus Digital has completed approximately $1.15 million in financing. The company is building a bilateral B2B marketplace that allows digital asset holders to interact directly with staking and DeFi protocols from a secure custody environment.
Web3 Games
The blockchain game development studio Orange Cap Games announced the completion of a $3.5 million seed round of financing, led by 1kx and a well-known Web3 company. The funds will be used to promote the development of its Vibes TCG and Moonbirds products and ecosystem.
AI+Web3
A well-known venture capital firm announced that it will lead a $33 million seed round financing for the AI and crypto integration platform Yupp. Yupp allows users to evaluate results generated by multiple models of AI, and the selected preferences will generate signed data packets for model fine-tuning and evaluation.
AI-driven crypto startup TrueNorth raised $1 million in a strategic angel round of funding, aiming to build a highly personalized digital asset discovery platform.
Infrastructure and Tools
Web3 security startup Hypernative has completed a $40 million Series B funding round, led by Ten Eleven Ventures and Ballistic Ventures. Hypernative focuses on real-time Blockchain threat prevention and has served over 200 clients, protecting total assets exceeding $100 billion.
The cryptocurrency wallet infrastructure company Turnkey has completed a $30 million Series B financing, led by a well-known venture capital institution. Turnkey will use the new funds to expand its team and promote the adoption of its API wallet solutions.
The cross-chain infrastructure company OneBalance announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing. The funds will be used to expand the team and enhance the core product Toolkit, which simplifies users' asset transfers and yield operations across multiple chains.
Blockchain financial infrastructure startup CloudTech has completed a $14 million Series A funding round, with business covering areas such as over-the-counter trading and stablecoin solutions.
The Web3 infrastructure team nuConstruct has completed a $6 million seed round of financing. Its core product TOOL aims to divide Ethereum's 12-second block time into 12 one-second micro-rounds, achieving 1-second transaction confirmation without Rollup.
The Ethereum Layer 2 project RISE has received a $4 million investment from an investment institution, bringing the total funds raised to $8 million so far. RISE achieves latency as low as 5 milliseconds through its Shreds trading architecture.
The communication platform Towns Protocol has completed an additional $3.3 million in financing, built on a certain Layer 2 network, aimed at promoting the development of Web3 social and collaboration tools.
Indian crypto wallet service provider PlutoPe has completed approximately $580,000 in Pre-Seed funding, primarily offering DeFi services based on non-custodial crypto wallets.
Consumption Field
Try Your Best (TYB) has completed a $11 million Series A financing, focusing on building Web3-driven consumer loyalty infrastructure, and has attracted 200 brands and 2 million users.
Crypto Asset Reserves
Brazilian listed tech company Méliuz announced the completion of a $32.5 million financing, which will be used to increase its holdings in Bitcoin.
The European listed company The Blockchain Group has completed a financing of 9.7 million euros to advance its Bitcoin reserve strategy.
Swedish health longevity company H100 Group completed a $10.5 million financing, which will be used to expand its Bitcoin reserve strategy.
NASDAQ-listed company Oblong, Inc. raised approximately $7.5 million through private placement financing to launch an artificial intelligence and digital asset strategy centered around Bittensor.
Centralized Finance
Stablecoin payment startup Noah has completed a $22 million seed round financing, led by a European venture capital institution. Noah offers a stablecoin payment API that can integrate with 50 currencies and covers 70 countries, with a total transaction volume exceeding $1 billion.